GIFT   OF 


r* 


THE  TEN  COMMANDMENTS 

AN  INTERPRETATION 


THE  CONSTITUTION  OF 
THE  SPIRITUAL  UNIVERSE. 


REV.  GEO.  CHAINEY. 


"  If  there  be  a  messenger  with  him,  an  inter- 
"  preter,  one  among  a  thousand,  to  show  unto 
"  man  his  uprightness:  Then  he  is  gracious  unto 
"  him,  and  faith,  Deliver  him  from  going  down 
"  to  the  pit:  I  hrve  fcund  a  rarsom." — 

Job  33-  'z.i,  '*4 


CHICAGO: 
STOCKHAM  PUBLISHING  CO. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress, 
in  the  year  1900, 

BY  GEORGE  CHAINEY, 

In  the  Office  of  Librarian  of  Congresi,  at 

Washington,  D.  C. 


TABLE  OP  CONTENTS 


Page 

A  Foreword 7 

Command- 
ments. 

1  The  Law  of  Light 19 

2  The  Law  of  Revelation  ....  29 

3  The  Law  of  Knowledge.   ...  39 

4  The  Law  of  Might 49 

5  The  Law  of  Counsel 61 

6  The  Law  of  Understanding    .  69 

7  The  Law  of  Wisdom 83 

8  The  Law  of  Holiness 91 

9  The  Law  of  the  Manifest.   .   .  99 
10    The  Law  of  the  Unmanifest  .  109 
The  Law  of  the  Law,  or  The  One 

Thing  Needful 121 

An  Afterword 127 


390584 


A  FOREWORD. 

GOD  is.  He  who  is  sup- 
posed to  be  unknowable,  is 
ready  to  be  known.  To  know 
God  is  to  have  intercourse  with 
the  mighty  company  of  the 
Celestial  Host  in  dream  and 
vision  without  loss  of  conscious- 
ness or  of  intelligence  of  the 
world  without.  God  is  a  mul- 
titude as  well  as  one.  He  di- 
vides Himself  that  we  may  re- 
ceive Him  according  to  our 
capacity.  These  divisions  are 
many.  The  greatest,  how- 
ever, are  the  sacred  seven 
spirits  of  Light,  Revelation, 
Knowledge,  Might,  Counsel, 
Understanding  and  Wisdom. 
These  seven,  operating  as  one, 
constitute  Holiness.  When 
this  Holiness  of  the  Heavens 


A  shall  be  fully  ex- 

POREWORD.  pressed  in  the 
Holiness  or  Wholeness  of  man's 
life  in  time,  God  will  be  re- 
vealed. This  is  God  as  the 
Lord — the  Manifest,  who  is  the 
neighbor  or  perfect  grace  and 
companion  of  God  as  the  Un- 
manifest.  These  divisions  are 
the  greater  Gods  or  Angels  of 
every  religion.  The  true  relig- 
ion includes  every  expression 
of  its  life.  This  interpretation 
of  the  law,  as  embodied  in  the 
ten  commandments,  that  gov- 
erns the  seven-fold  life  of  God, 
and  its  method  of  transfer  into 
the  life  of  man,  is  but  one 
branch  plucked  from  a  mighty 
tree  whereon  is  food  for  all. 
The  value  of  these  words  is  not 
in  themselves,  but  in  their 
power  to  hold  a  light  and 
show  the  way  to  this  Tree 
8 


A  of    L  i  f  e  .      This 

FOREWORD.  .        0          , 

tree  is  Revela- 
tion, bearing  its  twelve  manner 
of  fruits,  the  twelve  gifts,  rep- 
resented by  the  twelve  tribes 
of  Israel,  and  the  twelve  Apos- 
tles of  the  Lord.  These  are 
also  Gods  and  are  to  be  known 
and  possessed  as  living  com- 
panions in  the  day  of  the  Lord. 
"And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in 
"that  day,  that  the  light  shall 
"not  be  clear,  nor  dark;  but 
"it  shall  be  one  day  which 
"shall  be  known  to  the  Lord, 
"not  day  nor  night:  but  it  shall 
"come  to  pass,  that  at  evening 
' '  time  it  shall  be  light. " 

This  is  the  union  of  the  day 
and  night  of  conscious  intelli- 
gence in  sleep,  and  intelligent 
conscious  sight,  hearing  and 
touch  of  the  Spiritual  Host  when 
awake.  This  is  the  Tree  of 


A  Life,      guarded 

by  Cherubim  - 
those  grasped.  Cherubim  are 
composite  figures,  representing 
the  four  great  divisions  of  life 
in  spirit  and  body,  soul  and 
mind.  These  are  respectively 
the  four  cardinal  points  of  East 
and  West,  North  and  South  of 
the  new  state  of  existence  that 
lieth  four-square.  To  live  here 
is  to  rightly  divide  and  hold  all 
things  together  of  interest  of 
both  the  natural  in  the  spiritual 
and  the  spiritual  in  the  natural. 
This  equal  interest  of  matter 
and  spirit,  time  and  eternity, 
intelligence  and  goodness,  man 
and  God,  is  the  stone  long  re- 
jected of  the  builders,  now  to 
become  the  head  of  the  corner. 
Here  all  things  of  the  heavens 
and  the  earth  meet  and  mingle. 
It  is  by  searching  out  and 


A  knowing    these 

FOREWORD.  things  that  men 
live.  Man's  future  is  on  earth. 
The  victory  over  death  will 
come  through  a  state  of  equi- 
librium between  the  principle 
of  waste  and  supply,  by  which 
death  will  be  discharged  from 
the  service  of  life.  The  only 
power  that  can  redeem  the 
flesh  from  corruption  and  per- 
petually renew  the  body's  life 
is  the  fruit  of  the  Tree  of  Life, 
partaken  with  the  leaves,  that 
are  for  healing,  for  the  leaves 
denote  intelligence  of  the  vision. 
This  is  the  law  that  must  be  ful- 
filled. All  shall  arrive.  The 
Spirit  in  Time  will  be  faithful 
to  the  Spirit  in  Eternity,  and 
never  will  the  Eternal  Spirit  do 
for  man  what  man  can  do  for 
himself.  "And  it  shall  be  in 
"that  day,  that  living  waters 


A  -  s  h  a  1 1    go    out 

-from  Jerusalem, 
*  *  half  of  them  toward  the  former 
-sea,  and  half  of  them  toward 
-the  hinder  sea;  in  summer 
-and  in  winter  shall  it  be." 
In  these  writings  the  sea  and 
water  represent  consciousness, 
the  feminine  state,  and  the  land 
intelligence  or  the  masculine. 
The  former  sea  is  the  first  state 
of  consciousness  in  revelation 
from  the  spirit  as  a  mystery. 
The  hinder  sea  is  the  spiritual 
consciousness  made  one  with 
the  consciousness  of  the  body's 
life.  The  summer  is  the  heat 
of  the  mind  and  the  winter  the 
white  purity  of  the  soul's  per- 
fect goodness  in  the  union  of 
each  in  all  and  of  all  in  each,  of 
man  in  God  and  of  God  in  man. 
Then  will  God  be  as  visible  in 
all  the  objective  world  as  He  is 


A  realizable  in  the 

spiritual. 

This  is  the  goal.  This  is  the 
purpose  God  purposed  when  He 
resolved  to  make  man  in  His 
own  image.  This  purpose  has 
never  changed,  nor  ever  halted. 
We  are  speeding  to  this  end,  as 
swiftly  as  justice  to  both  God 
and  man  will  permit.  The  only 
evil  is  the  absence  of  the  spirit- 
ual from  the  natural,  or  of  the 
natural  from  the  spiritual. 
When  each  shall  be  filled  with 
the  other,  the  perfect  law  will 
be  fulfilled  in  the  perfect  beati- 
tudes of  grace.  Then  evil  will 
be  no  more. 

The  ten  great  commandments 
are  the  constitution  of  the  spir- 
itual universe.  They  are  the 
absolute  conditions  under  which 
the  Divine  Being  passes  into  the 
nature  of  man.  They  are  the 
13 


A  discovery  of  God 

to  God.  God 
here  communes  with  Himself 
and  reveals  to  each  division  of 
His  own  Spirit  the  destiny  im- 
posed upon  each  by  virtue  of  its 
relation  to  the  whole.  The  first 
seven  commandments  concern 
the  Sacred  Seven  of  Light,  Rev- 
elation, Knowledge,  Might, 
Counsel,  Understanding  and 
Wisdom.  The  eighth  pertains 
to  the  Holy  Spirit — the  full  oc- 
tave. The  ninth  is  the  law  of 
the  Lord — the  Manifest.  The 
tenth  the  law  of  God  the  Un- 
manifest.  They  contain  the 
whole  law  that  is  to  be  further 
expanded  and  illustrated  in  the 
method  of  its  work.  In  them 
is  the  very  essence  of  the  full- 
ness of  life  and  knowledge. 


The  Law  of  Light. 


First  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX  :  i,  2,  3, 


am  tft 

bv0Mjfet  tfc^^  0ut 
,  0ut  0f  the 


THE  LAW  or  Thefirstcommand 

LIGHT.  . 

prescribes  the 
law  of  Light.  Man  cannot  re- 
ceive God  in  His  fullness  at  the 
beginning.  So  God  divides 
Himself  for  the  purpose  of 
transmission.  God  is  both  the 
one  and  the  many.  Of  the 
many,  the  first  God  must  be 
the  operation  of  the  Spirit  as 
Light.  The  Lord  who  speaks 
is  Jehovah.  He  is  the  First  and 
the  Last.  He  lightens  from  the 
Heavens  and  rains  upon  the 
earth.  He  makes  or  causes  all 
things  to  come  to  pass.  He  de- 
livers the  spiritual  Host  of  liv- 
ing truths  from  the  narrow  state 
of  mind  and  brings  them  out 
into  the  larger  life  of  the  mu- 
tual relations  of  spirit  and 
body,  soul  and  mind.  Of  the 
19 


THE  LAW  OP    first)    the    begin- 
LIGHT.  f     „  ..? 

ning  of  all  things 

in  Light,  it  is  said:  "Thou 
shalt  have  no  other  Gods  be- 
fore me."  The  spiritual  life  in 
man  can  know  nothing  com- 
pletely at  the  first.  All  Divine 
life  in  man  begins  with  the  first 
flash  of  light,  dividing  itself  from 
the  darkness,  prompting  to  wor- 
ship and  to  seek  the  source  and 
cause  of  life.  Before  this,  man 
has  no  place  in  the  world  of  life, 
save  in  the  mere  form  that  has 
been  evolved  and  prepared  for 
such  awakening  and  reception 
of  the  varied  intelligence  with 
consciousness  that  makes  the 
character  called  man .  There  is 
no  other  beginning  in  either  the 
race  or  individual.  No  one  can 
climb  up  by  any  other  way.  No 
one  by  force  or  intellectual  seek- 
ing can  enter  into  the  later  qual- 

20 


THE  LAW  or     ities  of  God's  life 
who  does  not  ap- 
proach them    through    simple 
religion. 

Light  as  Religion,  comes  be- 
fore any  philosophy  or  creed. 
Without  Religion  there  can  be 
no  other  acquaintance  with  God. 
He  who  is  not  religious  in  this 
primary  sense  is  temporarily 
color-blind,  or  like  one  who  is 
without  any  ear  for  music.  To 
take  the  word  of  such  concern- 
ing God  and  the  soul,  is  like 
taking  the  judgment  of  one  coi- 
or-blind  in  art,  or  appointing 
one  without  an  ear  for  harmony 
as  a  teacher  or  critic  of  music. 
Such  defects  are  not  irremedia- 
ble. In  another  embodiment 
the  missing  part  will  be  found. 
All  shall  arrive.  Time  will  not 
fail  until  that  which  is  lost  is 
found.  But  there  can  be  no 


UGHT™ 

ment  in  spiritual 

life  that  does  not  rest  upon  sim- 
ple religion .  '  *  Thou  shalt  have 
no  other  Gods  before  me."  This 
is  the  first  and  the  last.  This  is 
the  first  quality  and  in  its  com- 
pleteness the  highest.  There  is 
nothing  superior  to  this  feeling 
of  the  heart  in  its  hunger  for  the 
cause  and  source  of  all  life.  All 
the  strange  ways  of  religion  will 
be  justified  at  the  last.  Man  is 
to  know  and  approve  in  religion 
of  the  very  nature  of  God. 
Those  who  criticize  and  reject 
religious  light  and  feeling  as  a 
moral  defect,  or  as  the  survival 
of  barbaric  ignorance  and  su- 
perstition may  in  other  things 
do  good  work.  But  for  them 
there  is  no  further  advance;  no 
higher  ideal  or  God,  until  they 
have  entered  the  kingdom  of 


THE  LAW  or     Light  and  learned 
LIGHT.  to    hunger    and 

thirst  for  God,  as  the  source  of 
all  life.  It  is  only  by  much 
ardent  devotion  in  the  spirit  of 
Light,  worshipping  God,  even 
in  the  darkness  of  the  mind, 
that  we  are  prepared  to  enter 
the  larger  cycles  of  God's  life  in 
man.  In  the  finality  of  Light 
man  will  know  that  the  One  in- 
cludes the  All.  Then  Religion 
will  embrace  and  hold  all  Re- 
ligions. Then  all  the  Mighty 
Host  of  spiritual  forms  will  be 
the  messengers  of  the  One  God 
and  Father  of  all.  The  com- 
plete man  can  have  no  God  that 
is  not  the  God  of  Gods  and  Light 
of  every  enlightenment.  Such 
will  have  interest  in  every  form 
of  religion  that  has  touched  the 
hearts  of  men  with  wonder,  love 
or  praise  towards  a  power 

23 


THE  LAW  OP  greater  than 
LIGHT.  themselves.  The 

most  exclusive  is  the  only  in- 
clusive. The  complete  man  will 
see  that  each  changing  ideal  in 
Religion  has  been  beautiful  in 
its  own  place  and  time.  He 
will  see  that  such  change  must 
continue  until  in  all  our  world 
all  shall  see  and  know,  know 
and  see  the  All  in  the  One  and 
the  One  in  the  All  :  Man  in 
God  and  God  in  Man. 


The  Law  of  Revelation. 


Second  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX  :  4,  5,  6. 


irtialt  not  make  unto  tkee 
ant)  0mfen  im*g*  ,  or  ang  likened 
0f  »tti)tkiu0  tknt  ij8i  in  S^av^n  ^ft0v^t 
or  tkat  i£  in  th^  ^Hrtk  Ireiu^tk,  ov 
tkat  i^  in  tke  wate*  wntl^r  tk^e  j 
®kou  i&k^lt  not  how  down 
to  tkmt  not  mve  tkem:  for  1  tk* 
l^otd  tkg  (Sod  urn  n  jenlou^ 
Siting  the  iniquity  of  tke 
upon  tke  rhiUvnt  unto  tke  tkint 
fourtk  flenetntion  of  tkem  ttot  Imte 
me;  %n&  skewing  merea  unto  tkou- 
0wtd0  of  tkem  tknt  love  me,  and 
keep  m 


THE  LAW  or  The  second 
REVELATION.  COmmand  in  this 
constitution  of  the  spiritual  uni- 
verse relates  to  the  Spirit  of 
Revelation.  While  Revelation 
is  the  greatest  of  all  mysteries, 
even  this  mystery  is  finally  to 
be  added  to  the  kingdom  of  the 
known.  While  the  beauty  of 
the  form  of  Revelation  is  the 
beauty  of  absolute  perfection, 
such  beauty  is  only  to  be  fully 
enjoyed  after  man  has  found  it 
to  be  but  the  ever  changing  ex- 
pression of  the  dear  life  of  a 
personal  God.  Revelation  is 
never  a  fixed  quantity.  It  is  a 
language  perpetually  expanding 
by  the  drawing  out  of  the  things 
of  Eternity  and  the  drawing  in 
of  the  things  of  Time.  After 
this  there  will  be  still  a  law  of 
29 


THE  LAW  OF  change  and  ex- 
REVELATION,  pansion  in  the 
growing  capacity  of  man  to  ex- 
plore still  further  into  the  depths 
of  the  infinite  love  and  wisdom 
of  God.  While  Revelation  is 
full  of  the  things  in  heaven  and 
earth  and  of  the  water,  or  con- 
sciousness, beneath  man's  in- 
telligence, there  are  none  of 
these  to  which  the  Spirit  of 
Revelation  can  say:  "Be  my 
complete  embodiment."  There 
may  be  the  highest  perfection 
in  the  unity  of  spirit  and  body 
or  of  soul  and  mind,  and  yet 
then  the  capacity  of  life  will  be 
subject  to  eternal  growth,  and 
its  attainments  stretch  far  be- 
yond the  power  of  this  might- 
iest of  all  languages  to  reveal 
in  any  one  form. 

The  mightiest  speech  of  Rev- 
elation is  the  symbolism  of  the 
30 


THE  LAW  OP  cherubim-those 
REVELATION.  , 

grasped,     c  o  m  - 

posite  forms  that  represent  the 
four  fold  nature  of  spirit  and 
body,  soul  and  mind.  But  these 
are  only  the  guardians  of  the 
Tree  of  Life.  Should  these  be 
converted  into  a  creed,  a  definite 
conception  or  form  exhausting 
all  perfection,  we  would  but  give 
our  affections  to  the  doorkeep- 
ers of  the  mansion  of  life,  in- 
stead of  passing  within  to  the 
company  of  the  King  and  Queen 
and  the  feast  of  life's  abundance 
of  all  good  things. 

He  who  causes  all  things  to 
be,  is  a  jealous  God.  True  jeal- 
ousy is  never  cruel.  Divine 
jealousy  holds  in  reserve  the 
best  for  the  best.  Only  the 
fullest  and  most  universal  in- 
telligence can  have  the  joy  of 
the  cosmic  consciousness.  Be- 
31 


THE  LAW  OP  fore  any  one  can 
REVELATION- know  the  fullness 
of  the  Unmanifest  he  must  be 
true  to  the  law  of  the  Mani- 
fest. Those  that  hate  and  turn 
away  from  the  great  labor  to 
know  and  to  do  the  will  of  God 
must  suffer  disappointment  and 
affliction,  until  they  learn  to  love 
all  the  way  as  well  as  the  end 
thereof. 

The  imperfection  of  every- 
thing that  is  eternal  rests  upon 
the  long  travail  of  the  Spirit  in 
Time.  This  must  continue  until 
the  third  or  fourth  generation. 
Nothing  is  perfect  until  it  has 
reached  the  fourfold  state. 
There  must  be  at-one-ment  of 
spirit  and  body,  and  of  soul  and 
mind.  Nothing  short  of  this 
can  content  the  mighty  love  of 
God.  God  is  jealous  for  His 
children.  He  will  not  allow 
32 


THE  LAW  Or    them   even   to 

REVELATION.      ,       ^, 

cheat  themselves. 

Whenever  we  are  content  with 
the  part,  He  sends  into  the  ob- 
ject of  our  love,  some  stroke 
of  affliction  that  reveals  its 
incompleteness  and  causes  us  to 
take  up  our  journey  to  the  end 
purposed  for  us  from  the  begin- 
ning. These  are  the  mercies 
that  are  shown  to  those  who  love 
and  keep  God's  commandments. 
The  great  Spirits  of  the  Elohim 
never  bow  the  knee  to  Baal- 
lord  or  master.  They  never 
force  upon  man  anything. 
These  all  love  and  revere  the 
long  travail  of  the  Spirit  in  Time 
to  bring  forth  the  perfection  of 
God  in  full  honor  and  justice  to 
man.  No  matter  how  often  we 
may  think  to  transcend  this  law, 
the  great  love  and  jealousy  of 
God  for  our  final  good  will  find 
33 


THE  LAW  Or     us    Qut          The 

REVELATION. 

true  heart  of  God 

will  never  be  content  until  He 
has  bestowed  His  very  best 
upon  all  the  worlds  that  He  has 
created. 


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The  Law  of  Knowledge. 


Third  Commandment, 

EXODUS  XX :  7. 

$h0u  tfhatt  n0t  tafee  the  name  0f 
the  i^rtd  tfeg  (S0^i  iw  vain;  f0y  the 
Iprffl  wtitt  »0t  h0M  him 
that  tafeeth  hfe  name  in  vain. 


mand  of  this  great 
constitution  of  the  Spiritual 
Universe  pertains  to  the  Spirit 
of  Knowledge.  The  name  is  the 
character.  The  character  is 
never  represented  by  word 
alone.  No  fullness  of  speech, 
out  of  the  fullness  of  conscious- 
ness, will  ever  express  the  per- 
fect character  of  truth.  While 
Spiritual  Knowledge  is  pre-em- 
inently a  state  of  consciousness, 
it  is  not  perfect  until  the  mys- 
tery of  life  is  fully  married  to 
the  strength  of  intelligence. 
There  may  be  an  intellectual 
grasp  of  things  in  their  uni- 
versal relations  that  is  not  one 
with  life,  as  well  as  a  fullness  of 
consciousness  apart  from  the 
unity  of  intelligence.  Neither  of 

39 


THE  LAW  OP  these  states  can 
KNOWLEDGE.  be  regarded  as 

guiltless.  Each  is  crooked  or 
onesided.  The  work  of  the 
Spirit  of  Knowledge  will  not  be 
complete  until  the  spiritual 
state  of  knowing  is  married  to 
that  which  comes  of  the  long 
labor  of  man  to  search  out  the 
natural  law  and  facts  of  the  ma- 
terial world. 

There  is  a  Divine  Realism 
as  well  as  a  Divine  Idealism. 
There  is  a  possible  speech  that 
is  true  to  the  material  facts  as 
well  as  to  the  eternal  beauty 
and  glory  of  the  moral  sense. 
Moral  beauty  in  its  utmost 
strength  and  perfection  alone, 
without  intelligence,  will  rust 
and  crumble  away  in  time  like 
the  strength  of  iron.  We  shall 
never  be  immortally  strong  until 
God's  strength  touches  man's 
40 


THE  LAW  OP     strength.    When 
KNOWLEDGE. 


to  live  in  us  and  we  feel  to 
know,  we  do  not  know  in  the 
perfect  sense,  unless  this  feel- 
ing of  the  poet  is  allied  to  ex- 
actness and  loyalty  to  the  laws 
of  chemistry,  the  facts  of  grav- 
itation, the  geography  and  his- 
tory of  the  material  world. 
Such  knowledge  comes  both  by 
Time  and  Eternity.  It  is  of  all 
man's  striving  as  well  as  of 
God's  giving. 

As  Revelation  increases  man 
will  at  first  incline  to  trust  this 
great  and  beautiful  speech  too 
much  for  knowledge.  The 
forms  of  men,  the  facts  of  his- 
tory, the  elements  of  nature, 
and  the  physical  divisions  of  our 
globe  will  live  therein;  and  yet 
these  things  cannot  be  trusted 
from  the  material  standpoint 
41 


any  more  than 
KNOWLEDGE.        .  J 

the    science, 

geography,  and  history  of  our 
earlier  Revelations.  This  is  the 
thing  that  has  to  be  learned  in 
regard  to  Knowledge.  This  is 
the  growth  in  man  for  which 
this  Spirit  must  wait  before  the 
spontaneous  utterance  of  the 
Spirit's  life  can  be  perfectly  free 
of  guilt.  c  When  we  have  fully 
absorbed  nature;  when  we  know 
the  limitations  of  both  the  in- 
tellectual and  conscious  divi- 
sions of  life,  and  have  brought 
the  two  together  into  a  just  and 
equal  marriage,  then  will  the 
poetic  beauty  of  the  heavens»in 
spontaneous  song  clothe  the 
dry  facts  of  material  knowledge 
with  the  moral  beauty  and 
sweetness  of  the  soul's  life. 

These  are  the  laws  of  God 
that    must    be    kept,    because 
42 


they  are  the  lim- 


THE  LAW  OP 

KNOWLEDGE. 


God  has  proscribed  to  each  di- 
vision of  His  Own  Spirit  in  the 
interest  of  the  whole.  To  ap- 
ply these  to  man's  actions  alone 
is  but  the  playful  ignorance  of 
our  world's  childhood.  As  soon 
as  we  become  men  we  shall  put 
away  these  childish  things. 


43 


The  Law  of  Might. 


Fourth  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX  :  8,  9,  10,  n. 


the  0#hlwth  day,  t0 

it  Ju%  $**  «*»*  Jftatt  than 
and  d0  #tt  tfey  writ:  ^ut 
the  ^v^wtfc  jflajj  ij$  tft^  ^btath  0f 
th^  Iprtrt  th»  «0«:  in  it  thou 
nat  40  any  w0ffet  th0u, 
nor  thy  dHttflhtet,  tbg 
nay  tha  tn^itetVKttt,  n0t 
w0tr  thy  ^ttawji^v  thut  %#  within  tht) 

in  $\x  &%%$  the 
heaven  ^nd  e^tth,  the  #e», 
^U  that  in  them  te,  »nfl  tested  the 
seventh  fl^tj  :  wthetef0te  the  ffetf 
the  sabbath  4ug  m&  hul- 
it* 


THE  LAW  OP  The  fourth  com- 
mand of  this  unal- 
terable constitution  of  the  Spir- 
itual Universe  governs  the  con- 
duct of  the  Spirit  of  Might.  The 
usual  idea  of  the  Sabbath  has 
about  as  much  to  do  with  this 
constitution  as  children  playing 
at  marbles.  The  One  Labor 
along  whose  path  of  arduous 
toil  Divine  Love  has  placed 
bowers  of  rest,  is  the  Mighty 
Labor  to  bring  the  heavens  and 
earth,  eternity  and  time,  God 
and  man,  together  into  one  all 
comprehensive,  divided,  and  yet 
undivided  intelligence  and  con- 
sciousness of  being.  While  this 
is  the  task  of  each  division,  it  is 
in  the  central  life  of  the  fourth 
— the  connecting  link  of  the 
upper  and  lower  triads — that 
49 


THE  LAW  OP    the    greatness 
MIGHT.  of    the    task    is 

found.  The  word  sabbath  spir- 
itually means  host.  On  the 
fourth  day  are  made  sun,  moon, 
and  stars.  The  mind  of  God 
consecrated  the  seventh  day  to 
rest,  because  ' '  in  six  days  the 
Lord  made  heaven  and  earth, 
the  sea  and  all  that  in  them  is, 
and  rested  the  seventh  day." 
The  sixth  day  is  the  toil  to  un- 
derstand. After  anything  to  be 
done  is  clearly  understood  the 
mind  has  rest  in  its  creative 
task. 

The  rest  of  the  Divine  Mind 
is  the  perfect  adaptation  of  the 
heavens  to  the  earth.  Each  is 
made  for  the  other.  Without 
the  inception  and  stimulating 
power  of  Revelation  there  would 
be  no  intelligence.  Without 
intelligence  to  search,  to  ob- 
50 


THE  LAW  OP  Serve,  and  finally 
to  clearly  .com- 
prehend, the  life  of  vision  would 
but  waste  its  sweetness  upon 
a  barren  desert.  Without  the 
land,  the  great  sea  would  be  but 
a  shoreless  waste  and  empty 
void;  while  withoutthe  sea  from 
which  to  draw  the  treasures  of 
rain,  the  land  would  remain  but 
a  vast  and  treeless  desert  of 
barren  rocks  and  drifting  sands; 
so  would  be  intelligence  and 
consciousness  without  each 
other.  So  would  man  be  with- 
out God  and  God  without  man. 
While  these  great  divisions 
are,  in  the  ultimate  perfection 
of  all  things,  to  perfectly  know 
each  other,  there  is  to  be  no  vio- 
lation of  this  mutual  relation  and 
independence.  Along  the  path 
of  this  toil  there  will  be  periods 
when  the  heavens  seem  silent; 
5* 


THE  LAW  or  and  others  when 
MIGHT.  the  intellectual 

life  is  wholly  subdued  by  the 
mighty  force  of  Revelation. 
But  from  time  to  time  the  per- 
fect relation  and  ministry  of  the 
two  will  be  seen  and  known. 
Then  will  Rest  be  found .  Then 
will  the  spirit  of  man  be  as  the 
Spirit  of  God  in  its  quiet  con- 
fidence and  certitude  of  the  final 
good  and  perfect  salvation  of 
every  soul. 

The  idea  of  the  Sabbath  even 
in  its  literalness  is  never  one  of 
complete  cessation.  Works  of 
necessity  have  always  been  al- 
lowed. The  true  Sabbath  is  a 
time  when  man  works  of  neces- 
sity. Destiny  and  exertion  have 
come  so  close  together  that  they 
act  in  perfect  concert.  The  ' '  I 
ought "  has  seen  and  embraced 
the  "I  would."  The  pain  of 
52 


THE  LAW  or  duty  has  been 
MIGHT.  swallowed  up  in 

the  life  of  pleasure.  The  day 
and  the  night,  the  heavens  and 
the  earth,  have  come  so  close 
together  that  there  is  no  fur- 
ther struggle  to  come  into  touch 
with  each  other.  Effort  has 
ceased  to  be  painful  in  its  en- 
tire spontaneity.  While  toil 
and  suffering  remain  they  are 
still  states  of  rest  and  quiet 
waiting  upon  God  in  Time,  with 
equal  confidence  of  God  in 
Eternity.  Everything  that  is 
mightily  understood  adds  its 
quota  to  this  growing  rest.  In 
the  green  tree  there  is  no  fur- 
ther struggle  to  draw  life  from 
the  dead. 

Sons  and  daughters,  maid- 
servants and  manservants, 
states  of  intelligence  and  con- 
sciousness both  of  the  spiritual 

53 


THE  LAW  or  and  the  natural, 
MIGHT.  ,  ~, 

have  rest.  There 

is  rest  even  with  the  cat- 
tle, the  further  toil  to  under- 
stand. There  is  rest  also  for 
the  stranger — the  ecclesiastical 
state  in  Religion.  In  the  right 
relation  of  the  heavens  and  the 
earth  these  cease  to  strive  with 
violence,  reaching  to  a  feeling 
of  confidence  and  universality 
of  expectation  touching  the 
final  good.  Though  Revelation 
bring  pain  of  reconstruction 
it  is  welcomed  with  gladness. 
Though  the  moral  and  intel- 
lectual nature  set  loftier  heights 
in  front  to  be  scaled,  it  is  with 
calm  confidence  that  the  sum- 
mit is  attainable.  Though  our 
rest  is  divided  by  many  enlarge- 
ments of  the  creative  power, 
each  cycle  brings  us  nearer  to 
the  everlasting  Rest  remaining 

54 


THE  LAW  OP  to  the  people  of 
MIGHT.  God.  This  Rest 

will  come  when  all  the  Liv- 
ing Host  of  the  heavens  have 
place  in  the  normal  and  intelli- 
gent self-consciousness  of  the 
most  highly  cultivated  state  of 
man  upon  earth.  This  is  the 
goal  towards  which  all  our  feet 
are  set  in  the  ways  of  God. 
When  we  stand  on  the  summit 
of  Time  overlooking  Eternity, 
our  feet  will  no  more  know 
weariness  and  our  hands  will 
never  again  fall  listless  to  our 
sides.  The  things  of  the  Spirit 
and  of  nature  will  fit  so  closely 
together  that  each  will  contin- 
ually renew  and  keep  perfect 
the  life  of  the  other. 


55 


The  Law  of  Counsel. 


Fifth  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX  :  12. 


thy  fath^  and  thy  nwth- 
e*  :  that  thy  day#  mas  he  long  ttpw 
the  land  which  the  l^ffl  thy  <S0d 
rjiveth  thee, 


THE  LAW  OP  In  the  sweet  coun- 
sels of  God  the 
law  of  existence  is  revealed. 
Such  life,  in  truth,  will  have  but 
a  short  life,  unless  it  is  honor- 
able both  to  the  heavens  and 
the  earth.  Should  God  speak 
to  man  direct,  writing  His  will 
every  night  in  fiery  letters  across 
the  sky,  He  would  glorify  Rev- 
elation but  dishonor  man's  in- 
i 

telligence.  In  communing 
with  Himself,  God  has  discov- 
ered the  just  relation  between 
Himself  and  all  men.  The  im- 
mortal state  of  truth  must  in- 
clude alike  the  fullness  of  man's 
intelligence  and  of  Divine  Re- 
vealing. Nothing  can  remain 
stable  that  has  not  reached  to 
the  dual  state.  We  must  have, 
at  last,  the  faculty  to  live  in 


THE  LAW  or  the  vision  of 
COUNSEL.  God  and  at  the 

same  time  attend  to  the  busi- 
ness of  the  material  world.  If 
we  sacrifice  the  common  for  the 
uncommon,  the  profane  for  the 
sacred,  we  have  not  yet  learned 
the  law  of  immortal  life.  At- 
tention to  every  earthly  duty; 
prudence,  foresight,  and  care 
for  material  interests  are  also 
sacred  duties  when  married  to 
spiritual  devotion. 

The  land  that  God  has  given 
to  be  finally  possessed  of  the 
spiritual  people,  is  the  earthly 
state  found  in  the  heavens,  and 
the  heavenly  naturalized  in  the 
earthly.  Nothing  is  final  that 
is  wanting  on  either  side.  The 
conditioned  is  to  be  made  bear- 
able by  the  absolute  and  the 
absolute  understandable  by  the 
conditioned.  This  is  the  land 


THE  LAW  Or     flowing     with 

COUNSEL.  .„          °  , 

milk  and  honey. 

This  is  the  state  out  of  which 
all  the  earlier  law  and  onesided 
degrees  of  Religion  are  to  be 
cast.  We  must  learn  to  do  our 
best  and  at  the  same  time  have 
perfect  trust  in  the  help  of  God. 
We  must  learn  to  seek  God  in 
the  natural  as  well  as  in  the 
spiritual.  The  consciousness 
of  earth  is  the  wife  of  the  intel- 
ligence of  the  heavens,  and  the 
consciousness  of  the  heavens 
the  spouse  of  the  intelligence 
of  the  earth.  Each  is  dual. 
This  mother  is  both  above  and 
below.  While  we  have  two 
fathers  and  two  mothers  they 
are  in  the  ultimate  but  one. 
The  Divine  law  rests  upon  the 
equality  of  the  male  and  female. 
Anything  short  of  equal  honor 
between  these  is  of  a  mortal 
63 


THE  LAW  OP  strain.  This 
equal  balancing 
of  all  things  will  be  the  ripe 
fruit  of  Time  and  of  Eternity. 
God  honors  man  by  giving  to 
him  the  labt>r  of  Time,  and  man 
honors  God  in  giving  to  God  all 
that  is  forever,  From  God 
comes  all  inception.  He  is  the 
primeval  and  the  final,  the  be- 
ginning and  the  end.  That 
which  lies  between  pertains  to 
the  co-operative  life  between 
God  and  man.  Nothing  shall 
reach  the  end  that  is  not  blessed 
alike  of  God  and  man,  honor- 
ing both  father  and  mother. 


64 


The  Law  of  Understanding. 


Sixth  Commandment, 

EXODUS  XX :  13. 

ja'halt  not  full. 


THELAWOP  There  are 

UNDERSTANDING.    many     de_ 

grees  of  spiritual  life  that  are 
born  to  slay  and  dispossess. 
But  those  who  live  by  the 
sword  shall  also  die  thereby. 
Those  that  slay  shall  also  be 
slain.  But  not  so  the  true 
Understanding.  To  this  por- 
tion of  Himself,  in  its  awaken- 
ing in  the  life  of  humanity, 
God  has  said  the  word:  '  *  Thou 
shalt  not  kill."  Those  who 
understand,  looking  out  over 
the  world  of  ideas  and  feelings 
and  seeing  those  that  are  to  be 
slain,  see  at  the  same  time 
other  states  and  feelings,  that 
are  following  swift  on  their 
footsteps  with  the  Divine  im- 
pulse to  slay;  for  thus  is  evil 
given  to  evil. 

69 


THE  LAW  OP  While    Un- 

UNDERSTANNNQ.      derstanding 

is  commanded  not  to  kill,  yet  it 
is  a  great  warrior.  The  victories 
of  peace  are  greater  than  those 
of  war.  Those  who  seek  no 
proselytes  often  win  the  most 
converts  to  what  they  teach. 
Those  who  bide  fast  in  their 
own  convictions,  yet  draw  all 
men  unto  them.  While  this 
Spirit  never  attacks  it  is  ever 
ready  for  self  defense.  The 
one  thing  most  essential  to 
Understanding  is  the  sacred- 
ness  of  the  individual.  There 
is  nothing  essential  in  asso- 
ciated life  that  is  inconsistent 
with  personal  freedom  of  inter- 
course between  man  and  God. 
In  the  laws  of  the  world  the 
right  of  self-defense  is  regarded 
as  above  the  law.  He  who 
kills  another  in  preserving  his 
70 


THE  LAW  OP  own  life  from 
UNDERSTANDING,  violence  is 
not  regarded  as  one  who  slays. 
Nations  in  the  defense  of  the 
aggregate  interests  of  a  people 
individually  and  collectively, 
take  life  in  war  and  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice.  This 
is  not  to  kill,  but  to  make  alive. 
He  who  dies  in  battle  is  not 
slain.  On  whichever  side,  the 
right  or  wrong,  the  warrior 
falls,  he  is  not  murdered.  Such 
are  so  full  of  life  that  for  them 
death  is  but  a  swift  change 
from  one  form  of  consciousness 
to  another.  Such  deaths  are 
removed  far  from  those  that 
are  slain  without  thought  or 
realization  that  death  was  near. 
The  ideas  and  feelings  that 
are  slain  in  voluntary  and  conse- 
crated defense  of  right  and 
truth,  fall  with  honor;  while 
71 


THE  LAW  or          those  that  are 

UNDERSTANDING.    slain  unex. 

pectedly,  by  intrusion  of  those 
who  would  have  all  men  think 
and  feel  alike,  die  before  they  are 
ready  and  these  are  murdered. 

The  true  Understanding  will 
never  proselyte.  Those  who 
understand  will  nobly  serve 
truth,  but  never  will  they  seek 
to  make  converts  thereto. 
What  they  have  is  freely  given 
for  all  to  take  or  to  let  alone, 
and  those  who  pass  by,  preoc- 
cupied with  other  things,  are 
also  the  children  of  God  as  well 
as  those  who  find  help  and 
sweetest  consolation  therein. 

Many  cannot  teach  save  by 
making  disciples.  The  work  of 
those  who  understand  is  to  set 
men  free  and  to  turn  each  to  the 
light  that  burns  within.  The 
true  teacher,  when  he  shall  ar- 
72 


THE  LAW  OF  rive,  will  have 

UNDERSTANDING.     no  followers. 

Those  who  claim  to  follow  will 
be  his  worst  foes.  While  the 
Spirit  that  gives  Understanding 
is  non-aggressive  yet  is  it  strong- 
ly armed  against  aggression. 
To  resist  intrusion  is  to  be  a  true 
friend  to  those  who  intrude. 
There  is  no  true  health  or  se- 
curity as  long  as  man  does  not 
reverence  the  sacred  principle 
of  personality.  In  the  crowded 
places  of  progress  each  should 
be  protected  in  this  respect. 
The  jostling  and  dispossession 
of  the  crowd  wherein  each 
struggles  for  himself  is  heedless 
of  this  sacred  right.  When  peo- 
ple go  in  crowds  the  one  is  lost 
in  the  many.  There  will  be  no 
crowding  nor  haste  nor  pushing 
away  of  others  in  a  world  of 
understanding.  The  nations 

73 


THE  LAW  OP  will  come 

UNDERSTANDING. 


tional  agreements,  that  will 
make  the  most  of  their  com- 
bined powers  and  yet  leave  to 
each  the  fullest  freedom  for  self- 
development.  Association  for 
any  purpose  will  be  brought  into 
harmony  with  personal  whole- 
ness and  integrity  and  every 
man  will  see  in  each  the  rep- 
resentation of  all.  The  under- 
standing will  give  place  to  the 
fullness  of  all  natural  and  spirit- 
ual activity. 

No  one  can  communicate 
understanding.  While  mind 
may  instruct  mind,  Under- 
standing cannot  communicate. 
This  is  always  personal.  It  is 
a  state  of  both  consciousness 
and  intelligence.  It  is  the  con- 
sciousness of  the  unconscious. 
It  is  as  free  from  effort  or  com- 
74 


THE  LAW  OP  municable- 

UNDERSTANDING.   ness    as   the 

beating  of  the  heart.  You  un- 
derstand because  you  must.  It 
is  that  which  is  and  cannot  be 
denied,  nor  affirmed  for  another. 
This  does  not  kill.  It  never  in- 
trudes. It  never  slays.  It  comes 
into  possession  only  where  there 
is  no  one  else  to  make  a  claim. 
It  takes  the  empty  house  from 
which  the  one-sided  spirits  have 
gone.  It  never  comes  to  the 
selfish,  to  the  irreverent  nor  to 
the  undeveloped  in  natural  ex- 
cellence and  completeness  of 
nature.  It  cannot  be  acquired 
by  any  lust  for  the  spiritual 
that  ignores  anything  that  is 
natural.  It  depends  upon  no 
trick,  no  practices,  no  consent 
of  mind.  It  comes  at  the  right 
moment  as  the  result  of  all  that 
is  noblest  and  best  like  the  per- 
75 


THE  LAW  OF          fume  of  the 

UNDERSTANDING.     flower  Qr  ^ 

ripeness  of  the  peach.  It  is  a 
power  to  sleep  and  to  keep 
awake;  to  wake  and  yet  to 
sleep;  to  live  and  to  let  live;  to 
act  and  yet  remain  passive;  to 
see  and  to  know;  to  know  and 
to  see. 

The  Spirit  of  the  Under- 
standing is  the  Physician  of 
God.  It  is  the  healing  or 
making  whole  that  is  Divine. 
It  is  the  awakening  into  con- 
sciousness of  the  unconscious. 
This  cannot  slay  nor  be  slain. 
This  gives  time  and  place  for 
every  divided  state.  For  it, 
the  sun  stands  still  and  the 
moon  goes  not  down.  It  no 
more  intrudes  upon  others  than 
does  the  silent  spirit  that  tends 
to  the  beating  of  the  heart. 
While  those  states  of  mind 
76 


THE  LAW  or  that  try  to 
UNDERSTANDING,  break  in  upon 
this  power  may  be  slain  this 
Spirit  is  guiltless  of  the  deed. 
The  blood  of  those  who  do  vio- 
lence here  is  upon  their  own 
heads.  Then  the  all-healing 
work  of  Raphael,  Physician  of 
God,  will  be  complete. 

In  the  finality  of  truth  there 
can  be  neither  slaying  nor  slain. 
The  immortal  truth  will  be  the 
sure  harbinger  of  man's  immor- 
tality upon  earth. 


77 


The  Law  of  Wisdom. 


Seventh  Commandment 

EXODUS  XX:  14. 

not  wwntft 


THE  LAW  or  The  best  is  for 
the  best.  The 
wisdom  of  heaven  is  for  the 
wisdom  of  the  earth.  The  per- 
fect life  of  the  skies  can  only  be 
a  destroyer  to  all  that  is  imper- 
fect below.  The  absolute  law 
that  governs  the  life  of  wisdom 
is  expressed  in  the  word  that 
may  not  be  broken,  "Thou 
shalt  not  commit  adultery." 
The  word  of  the  Lord  may  not 
be  broken .  What  God  has  said 
must  come  to  pass.  God  never 
transgresses  His  own  nature. 
Other  Spirits,  like  Knowledge 
or  Revelation,  may  commit 
adultery.  These  may  be  re- 
lated to  states  of  consciousness 
belonging  to  others .  The  Spirit 
of  wisdom  is  only  known  by  its 
own  consciousness. 
83 


THE  LAW  Or     ....     ,  .. 

WISDOM.  Wisdom  is  by 
its  very  nature, 
a  unit.  It  is  in  itself  an  abso- 
lute identity  of  the  cosmic  con- 
sciousness with  universal  in- 
telligence. It  is  the  union  of 
Time  and  of  Eternity,  of  mat- 
ter and  of  spirit.  The  material 
life  is  long  a  stranger  to  the 
spirit.  Time  is  long  inhospit- 
able to  the  Eternal.  Time  may 
not  know  the  full  secret  of 
Eternity  as  long  as  there  is  any- 
thing to  be  achieved  in  its  own 
department.  God  has  set  metes 
and  bounds  about  the  divisions 
of  His  own  nature.  Each  is 
governed  by  its  own  law. 
These  laws  are  such  as  make  to- 
gether a  perfect  whole.  These 
are  the  sum  of  all  excellence. 
To  know  the  meaning  of  these 
ten  words  of  life  is  to  know  the 
general  meaning  of  existence. 
84 


'        I"  Devolution 

of  religious  life 
the  idea  is  never  wholly  con- 
crete, never  a  perfect  har- 
mony of  the  within  and  the 
without,  until  Wisdom's  rest  is 
found.  Here  no  strife  can  en- 
ter. Here  is  no  envy  of  or  seek- 
ing what  belongs  to  another. 
In  Light  our  consciousness  may 
be  seized  by  Revelation;  or  in 
Revelation  it  may  be  invaded 
by  Knowledge,  while  the  Intel- 
ligence still  clings  to  Light  or 
Revelation.  Here  the  apples 
of  discord  are  eaten.  In  the 
life  of  Wisdom  all  is  peace  and 
harmony.  No  sounds  of  war 
are  heard.  Every  man  sits 
under  his  own  vine  and  fig  tree. 
The  things  revealed  within  are 
one  with  the  consciousness 
without.  Wisdom  is  no  prop- 
agandist. It  makes  no  prose- 

85 


THE  LAW  OP  lytes.  It  is  sat- 
isfied with  its 
own.  It  is  the  child  of  the 
heavens  and  of  the  earth.  It 
holds  the  lyre  and  pours  fourth 
melodious  song.  It  knows  the 
past  and  the  future.  It  beholds 
the  relation  of  every  part  to  the 
whole.  There  is  fullness  above 
and  fullness  below.  There  is  a 
consciousness  of  the  uncon- 
scious and  an  unconsciousness 
of  the  conscious.  Things  once 
wholly  unknown  become  known 
and  the  things  known  have  rest 
in  the  unknown. 


86 


The  Law  of  Holiness. 


Eighth  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX:  15. 


not 


THE  LAW  OF  The  Law  of  Holi- 
ness, or  Whole- 
ness,  is  perfect  contentment. 
This  Spirit  is  the  full  octave. 
All  is  given  and  all  is  received. 
The  Law  of  its  life  is  expressed 
in  the  words:  "Thou  shalt  not 
steal."  This  is  what  God  has 
said  to  His  own  strength.  In 
the  Holy  Spirit  there  is  no  try- 
ing to  do  today  what  belongs 
to  the  tomorrow — no  trying  to 
take  from  another  what  has  not 
been  honestly  bought  and  paid 
for  in  the  great  law  of  universal 
exchange.  In  Holiness,  intel- 
ligence beholds  itself  in  the 
qualities  of  the  soul,  and  these 
in  turn  look  with  joy  upon  their 
own  reflection  in  the  strength 
of  the  mind.  The  Spiritual  is 
seen  in  the  material  and  the 
91 


THE  LAW  OP  material  in  the 
HOLINESS.  Spiritual.  For 
long  such  wholeness  seemed  un- 
known to  men.  We  are  con- 
tinually disturbing  the  serenity 
of  the  present  moment,  by  try- 
ing to  penetrate  into  that  which 
is  to  come.  There  is  a  possi- 
ble contentment  and  satisfac- 
tion with  every  moment,  with- 
out being  false  to,  or  in  any  way 
neglectful  of,  the  law  of  growth. 
The  Holy  Spirit  is  called 
Gabriel — Strength  of  God .  The 
Strength  of  God  is  in  the  One- 
ness of  past  and  future,  with 
the  present  moment.  When 
man  shall  reach  to  this  great 
accord  between  Time  and  Eter- 
nity, he  will  feel  himself  to  beat 
once  in  the  center  and  the  cir- 
cumference, and  in  perfect 
equality  of  mind  and  affections 
towards  both  the  attained  and 
92 


THE  LAW  or  the  attainable. 
HOLINESS.  What  has  been, 

was  good;  what  is  now,  is  bet- 
ter; and  what  shall  be  will  be 
best  of  all. 

Holiness  does  not  the  less  en- 
joy the  good  and  the  better,  be- 
cause there  is  a  best.  In  this 
Spirit  there  is  true  order  and 
relationship;  and  Time  has  full 
respect  with  Eternity.  It  is 
this  Spirit  of  true  contentment 
that  must  complete  even  the 
work  of  the  Spirit  in  the  long 
travail  of  Time.  This  One 
must  come  after  and  lead  into 
all  truth  of  both  the  Manifest 
and  the  Unmanifest. 

To  be  in  touch  with  this 
strength  of  God  is  to  be  strong, 
cheerful,  serene,  nonchalant, 
persevering,  and  yet  restful; 
careless  and  gay  and  yet  earnest 
and  thoughtful.  It  is  only  in 

93 


THE  LAW  or    such   company 

HOLINESS.  •  ,  u      r»        «, 

with     Gods 

strength  that  man  truly  finds 
his  own,  and  does  works  of 
wholeness  and  finality  that  take 
from  none  butgive  to  all.  This 
strength  is  in  any  life  a  secret 
and  ever  present  source  of  com- 
fort, and  so  this  Spirit  is  called 
also — The  Comforter. 

He  who  would  thread  the 
long  pass  over  the  heaped  up 
mountains  of  the  fullness  of  the 
Spirit's  life  must  carry  with  him 
this  knowledge  of  the  resting 
places  by  the  way.  There  is 
such  rest  after  every  great 
achievement  in  the  labor  to  un- 
derstand and  be  wise  in  the  ways 
of  God.  Blessed  are  all  those 
who  can  be  glad  today  without 
doing  wrong  to  the  tasks  of  to- 
morrow. These  do  not  steal. 

94 


The  Law  of  the  Manifest. 


Ninth  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX :  16. 

mm  jtatt  n<rt  faw  tote*  witntw 
thtj 


THE  LAW  OP          ItistheMani- 
THE  MANIFEST.     ,        ,,     ,   .     ,, 
test  that  is  the 

neighbor  of  the  Unmanifest. 
The  Life  of  God  in  Time  may 
not  bear  a  false  witness  against 
its  neighbor  the  Life  of  God  in 
Eternity.  The  One  shall  love 
the  Other  as  Himself. 

There  can  be  no  final  satis- 
faction or  perfection  in  the 
heart  of  man  until  all  that  can 
be  known  or  seen  within  shall 
be  equally  seen  and  known 
without.  But  the  method  of 
this  knowing  and  seeing  must 
not  do  away  with  the  necessity 
of  human  toil.  We  must  not 
flee  this  task  of  drawing  out 
until  it  is  achieved  as  much  by 
the  labor  of  Time  as  by  its  own 
inherent  tendency  and  seeking 
for  visible  expression. 
99 


THE  LAW  OP  W  h  e  n  t  h  e 
THE  MANIFEST.  heavens  preSs 

upon  us  for  interpretation,  we 
must  not  lay  aside  the  necessity 
of  human  toil.  While  the  be- 
ginnings and  endings  are  with 
God,  man  must  have  share  in 
all  that  lies  between. 

The  labor  of  the  Spirit  in  Time 
is  by  no  means  complete  in  the 
manifestation  of  the  Eternal 
Thought  of  God.  That  would 
leave  all  that  is  best  but  a  cold 
and  dry  abstraction.  How- 
ever beautiful  life  may  be  within 
we  must  have  an  equal  beauty 
without. 

All  the  work  that  is  being 
done  in  the  world,  for  material 
improvement  and  perfection  of 
things  of  use  and  beauty,  is  an 
essential  ingredient  of  our  final 
state  of  perfection.  The  Spirit 
that  is  born  of  God  has  also 


THE  LAW  OF  descended  into 
THEMANIPEST.  the  lowest 

parts  of  our  earth  or  natural  in- 
telligence. God  is  working  in 
all  the  mole -like  gropings  of 
scientific  investigation  as  truly 
as  He  is  descending  upon  us  in 
the  bright  visions  of  the  trans- 
forming heavens. 

The  final  state  of  perfection 
must  include  many  Octaves  of 
Holiness.  Every  division  of  in- 
telligence and  consciousness 
must  be  slowly  assimilated 
each  to  the  other  before  we 
can  know  the  full  unity  of  the 
heavens  and  the  earth. 

Spiritual  perfection  alone 
would  be  only  a  Barmecidal  or. 
imaginary  feast.  Though  the 
vision  is  real  and  these  forms 
are  the  Eternal  Thoughts  of 
God  yet  are  they  to  both  God 
and  man  imperfect  until  they 


THE  LAW  OP  are  married  to 

THE  MANIFEST,  .,  . 

every  possible 

grace  and  material  counterpart 
that  is  subject  to  improvement 
in  time.  But  Time  is  faithful. 
The  Spirit  will  not  abandon  its 
task. 

The  knowledge  of  heaven 
and  all  its  meanings  could  not 
content  us  without  our  own 
earth  evolved  to  perfection  and 
all  its  dear  familiar  ways. 

God  shall  have  true  witness. 
He  shall  be  expressed  in  the 
perfection  of  form  as  well  as  of 
mind.  He  shall  be  seen  in  all 
that  is  natural  and  material  as 
well  as  in  all  that  is  spiritual  and 
celestial.  Never  will  content 
abide  in  our  hearts  until  human 
grace  and  beauty  honor  and 
clothe  the  Spirit,  even  as  Divine 
Grace  and  Beauty  honor  and 
shine  through  our  human  lives. 

102 


THE  LAW  OP  God  shall  have 
THE  MANIFEST,  glory  in  che 
spirit  and  body,  the  soul  and 
mind.  He  shall  be  seen  and 
known  in  all  that  is.  He  has 
created  nothing  in  vain.  Every 
hour  of  toil  and  every  pain 
endured  have  added  something 
to  the  Manifestation  of  the  Di- 
vine. 

The  Glory  of  the  Manifest  is 
that  it  is  the  glory — not  of  God 
or  of  one  life  of  miraculous 
beauty  and  superhuman 
achievement — but  that  it  is  at 
once  the  sum  of  God's  giving 
and  of  all  man's  striving  and 
suffering  to  receive  and  embody, 
in  both  form  and  substance,  in 
all  the  many  lives  and  genera- 
tions of  our  great  human  broth- 
erhood. 

To  come  to  God  through 
Christ  the  Lord,  is  to  grow 
103 


THE  LAW  OP         God  -  like    by 

THE  MANIFEST.  virtueof  all  the 
long  travail  of  each  in  all  and 
all  in  each.  By  this  striving 
man  grows  into  both  human 
and  Divine  fellowship.  There 
is  no  other  way,  truth,  or  life. 
Everything  less  than  this  is  a 
false  witness.  "As  for  me,  I 
will  behold  thy  face  in  right- 
eousness :  I  shall  be  satisfied, 
when  I  awake  with  thy  like- 
ness." 


104 


The  Law  of  the  Unmanifest. 


Tenth  Commandment. 

EXODUS  XX:  17. 


n0t  JC0wt  tlwj 
,  thou  ^Imtt  not 

0*  hi^  man- 


M#  0xt  nor  hi^  K#^t  n0r 
that 


THE  LAW  OP  THE  The  tenth  and 
UNMANIPEST.  last  command 
of  this  perfect  constitution  of  the 
spiritual  world  pertains  to  the 
Unmanifest.  Here  the  neigh- 
bor is  the  Manifest.  God  in 
Eternity  will  not  set  aside  any 
of  the  labor  of  the  Spirit  in  the 
travail  of  Time. 

God  is  jealous  for  man's  per- 
fection. This  is  the  jealousy  of 
Infinite  Love.  The  only  way 
in  which  God  can  satisfy  this 
love  is  to  give  to  man  every  pos- 
sible honor  and  glory  in  the 
work  of  creation. 

God  could  not  create  in  any 
other  way.  Having  all  Him- 
self, He  will  keep  that  all  con- 
cealed until  man  has  received 
and  had  part  in  the  growth  of 
every  true  excellence  in  himself. 
109 


THE  LAW  OP  THE  AU the  hiding 
UNMANIFEST.  of  God  and 
all  the  long  travail  of  the  world 
and  all  the  labors  and  sorrows 
of  human  existence,  as  well  as 
its  joys  and  possessions,  are  the 
means  by  which  the  character 
of  humanity — that  is  to  be  the 
essence  of  immortal  life — is  be- 
ing slowly  unfolded.  While  it 
is  our  part  to  struggle  against 
all  that  seems  to  us  evil;  to  be 
forever  at  war  with  ignorance, 
want,  pain,  and  sorrow;  yet 
were  it  not  for  these  things  to 
subdue,  the  finer  qualities  of 
sympathy,  friendship,  love, 
strength  of  will,  loyalty,  com- 
passion, daring  courage,  ad- 
venture, and  the  high  excellence 
of  heroic  action,  could  never  be 
ours.  Had  God  created  these 
without  our  help,  by  any  other 
method,  He  would  have  coveted 


THE  LAW  OP  THE     and    taken 

UNMANIPEST.  , 

possession  of 

what  infinite  justice  and  perfect 
being  had  bestowed  upon  His 
neighbor — the  operation  of  the 
Spirit  in  Time. 

We  are  continually  asking 
God  to  do  for  us  what  God 
must  deny,  or  cease  to  be  the 
just  and  jealous  God,  careful 
for  the  highest  good  of  all  His 
children.  We  are  continually 
breaking,  in  our  hopes  and  most 
virtuous  endeavors,  either  the 
law  of  the  Manifest  or  of  the 
Unmanifest.  But  because  God 
is  God,  both  in  Time  and  Eter- 
nity, no  one  ever  did  break 
through  these  limits  that  He  has 
thrown  around  His  own  being, 
in  reality.  These  things  stand 
fast.  The  Divine  intent  will 
yet  become  the  Divine  accom- 
plishment. 


THE  LAW  OP  THE  Thisisthelaw 
that  must  be 

fulfilled  even  to  the  uttermost. 
God  comes  into  being  through 
these  ways.  To  draw  out  the 
vision  of  the  Law  from  the  very 
Heart  of  God  is  the  work  of  the 
Spirit  of  Counsel.  To  bring  this 
Law  into  actual  embodiment  is 
the  work  of  the  Manifest — the 
full  travail  of  the  Spirit  in  all 
men  and  in  all  time— until  by 
the  increase  of  our  manly  pow- 
ers we  scale  the  heights  and  win 
the  Eternal  City. 

The  great  victory  of  the  Spirit 
in  Time  will  be  the  complete 
understanding  and  embodiment 
of  the  life  and  power  of  Reve- 
lation in  man's  normal  intel- 
ligence and  consciousness  of 
being. 

The  highest  excellence  of  the 
Spirit  can  only  shine  through  a 


THE  LAW  OP  THE    pure  and  per- 
UNMANIPEST.  fect     body. 

The  sweetest  love  and  beauty  of 
the  soul's  grace  can  only  be  given 
to  the  noblest  strength  and  most 
universal  range  of  a  cultivated 
intelligence.  We  often  see  in 
human  growth  and  progress 
faults  instead  of  virtues.  It  is 
better  to  be  ignorant  of  God  and 
to  bravely  confess  such  ignor- 
ance, than  to  basely  conform  to 
a  popular  faith  and  to  weakly 
leave  to  God  the  work  of  im- 
provement in  himself  and  the 
world  that  God  has  bestowed 
upon  man.  Neither  God  nor 
Truth  is  injured  by  denial  when 
those  who  deny  are  sincere  and 
doing  their  best  to  know  and  do 
the  right.  God's  mercy  is  to- 
wards those  who  deny,  as  well 
as  to  those  who  affirm. 
Did  Godbreak  through  and  re- 


THE  LAW  OP  THE  yeal  Himself 
UNMANIPEST. 

to   any    man 

outside  of  the  order  of  nature  in 
which  we  all  are  placed,  He 
would  at  once  surrender  the  sov- 
ereignty of  the  worlds.  It  is 
because  the  greatest  boon  He 
can  give  to  us  is  the  full  respon- 
sibility of  searching  and  finding 
God  that  there  are  times  when 
the  noblest  and  best  of  earth  for 
a  little  while  find  themselves 
without  God.  Were  it  not  for 
this,  God  would  be  a  lawless 
despot,  whom  we  might  fear  but 
never  love,  and  against  whom 
it  would  be  wiser  to  inaugurate  a 
strong  rebellion  than  to  weakly 
submit  to  selfish  power. 

When  man  has  discovered 
the  fullness  of  God's  gift  he  will 
find  its  greatest  benefaction  in 
this  law  of  the  Unmanifest,that 
gives  to  man  in  Time  every  pos- 
114 


THE  LAW  OP  THE     sible  p  r  i  V  i  - 
UNMANirEST.          i  e  g  e     a  n  d 

share  and  fruition  in  the  works 
of  the  Creator. 

Without  this,  man's  complete- 
ness is  unthinkable.  There 
can  be  no  perfection  for  man 
destitute  of  self  respect  and  in- 
dividual merit.  Should  God 
do  at  any  time  for  man  what 
man  can  do  for  himself,  He 
would  break  this  law  of  His 
own  Infinite  Being.  This  is 
the  Law  of  the  Unmanifest. 


The  One  Thing  Needful. 


The  Law  of  the  Law. 

EXODUS  XX  :  18-26. 


an  the  ywylt  tfaw  the  thwi- 
$,  anfl  the  lightning,  and  the 
0f  the  tntwpet,  m\A  the  m0wn- 
taiw  m0hin0:  and  when  the  people 
it,  theg  tem0 
wfl  thejj 

th0u  with  wioft  ^nfl  we 
hew:  hut  let  n0t  $v&  ^pe^fe  with 
ttioft  lt$t  we  4ie 
ttttto  the  pe0piet  <geny  «0t: 
ijSf  e0me  t0  pr0tre  j)0u,  M*  that  hi# 
fear  tnag  Ire  Href0fe  j)0w  f  aee^,  that 
jje  #iw  n0t  g^nd  the  pe0ple  5t00d 
afav  0ff  t  and  |W0^e^  drew  wear  wnt0 
the  thieh  flat*  fetter  where 

gwfl  the  f  0r«  #aifl  unt0 
®hw^  th0w  ^Itatt  ^atj  twt0  the  ehil- 
4ren  0f  Israel,  |Je  have  ^eew  that  K 
have  talhed  with  j)0w  fr0m  heavew* 


n0t  mtikt  with  me 
,  ntitbtf  tfuttl  p  mnfe*  wnto 

JJ0U 


thy  ftutttt  0ff  ^vinfljS?,  »wd  thjj 


whm 

name  f  will  r0m^  ttnt0  thee,  m&  K 
will  Uf  itf  tto^    gtttfl  if  th0u  wilt 
me  an  ato*  0f  ^t0net  tbou 


if  th0u  lift  wp  thy  t001  wp0n  it,  th0w 
Jt^tpUuteflit.  gdthe 
00  wp  ftjj  ^tep^  wnt0  miwe 


THE  ONE  THING  The  one  thing 
NEEDFUL.  needed  in  the 

world,  is  a  joyous  and  intelli- 
gent state  of  intercourse  be- 
tween the  heavens  and  the 
earth.  It  is  possible  for  man 
to  see  and  to  hear  and  to  be 
near  to  the  heavenly  state, 
and  yet  to  be  almost  over- 
whelmed with  the  majesty  and 
greatness  thereof.  When  the 
people  saw  these  things  they 
removed  and  stood  afar  off. 
The  great  spiritual  Host  within 
retire  and  hold  back  waiting 
for  Moses,  the  Spirit  of  Coun- 
sel, drawn  out  from  the  waters 
of  consciousness  by  human 
worth,  to  be  their  interpreter. 
This  holding  back  produces  in 
the  religious  world  a  like  state 
of  shrinking  and  fear  of  this 


THE  ONE  THING     great  mystery 
of  Revelation. 

There  is  a  long  time  when  man 
is  overwhelmed  with  the  idea 
of  any  such  close  and  intimate 
intercourse  with  God.  But 
man  must  conquer  fear.  God 
comes  in  these  dark  and  mys- 
terious ways  that  the  spiritual 
life  may  be  proved  and  made 
perfect  by  coming  into  just  re- 
lation with  man's  intellectual 
and  moral  nature.  Without 
this  darkness  and  liability  to 
misconception  man  could  have 
no  honorable  part  in  the  work 
of  creation.  Without  this  fear 
and  dread  within  and  without, 
there  would  be  nothing  ade- 
quate for  the  awakening  and 
development  of  the  noblest 
qualities  possible  to  mankind. 
By  this  relationship  and 
mutual  service  of  the  heavens 


THE  ONE  THING     to   the   earth 
everything    is 

possible.  The  right  relation  of 
the  two  is  the  very  wisdom  by 
which  God  creates.  By  this 
intercourse  the  whole  nature  of 
man  is  subject  to  transforma- 
tion until  spirit  and  body,  soul 
and  mind — so  long  separate 
states  of  intelligence  and  con- 
sciousness— are  drawn  together 
into  a  perfect  unity.  The  one 
thing  all  men  most  need  to 
learn  in  the  religious  life,  is 
that  such  intercourse  is  pos- 
sible and  open  to  all  upon  the 
same  terms.  "Ye  have  seen 
that  I  have  talked  with  you 
from  heaven."  This  is  to  see 
that  this  way  of  life  is  not 
merely  a  thing  of  the  past,  but 
a  fact  within  the  reach  of  man 
today.  In  this  dual  life  there 
must  be  one  ideal  kept  in  view. 
123 


THE  ONE  THING       With  this  life 
there  must  be 

no  more  Gods  of  silver  or  of 
gold.  Silver  is  the  Under- 
standing while  gold  is  the  Rev- 
elation. The  ideal  of  existence 
is  not  to  be  one  or  the  other 
but  of  the  open  life  and  con- 
tinual exchange  and  intercourse 
between  the  two.  Revelation 
must  rest  upon  intelligence. 
This  is  the  altar  of  earth.  This 
relation  is  the  very  name  or 
character  of  the  Lord.  Where- 
ever  there  is  such  intercourse 
there  is  the  blessing  of  the 
Lord.  The  spiritual  offerings, 
the  flocks  of  vision,  are  to  find 
place  in  man's  life  through  the 
intelligent  apprehension  of 
their  meaning. 

An  altar  of  stone  is  a  recep- 
tion of  Revelation  in  the  moral 
consciousness.     To  lift  up  the 
124 


THE  ONE  THING        tool   upon  the 
NEEDPUL.  stones  is  to  cut 

and  shape  and  fit  together  sep- 
arate states  of  consciousness  as 
the  measure  of  life's  attainment. 
This  is  to  pollute  the  moral  na- 
ture by  divorcing  goodness  from 
intelligence.  These  two  are  to 
be  free  to  pervade  and  influence 
each  other.  The  north  and  the 
south,  as  well  as  the  east  and 
the  west  are  to  come  together. 
To  go  up  by  steps  upon  the 
Divine  Altar  is  to  make  the  es- 
sential of  Religion  an  acquaint- 
ance with  some  system  of  log- 
ical sequence.  Then  life  rests 
upon  creed  and  system  instead 
of  upon  individual  intelligence 
and  consciousness .  Then  is  re- 
ligion put  to  shame  by  the  nak- 
edness of  the  abstract  without 
the  concrete,  and  the  truths  re- 
vealed unclothed  with  personal 
125 


THE  ONE  THING      Hfe  and  experi- 
ence.  The one 

thing  needful  is  a  continual  in- 
tercourse between  the  people  of 
the  heavens  and  the  people  of 
the  earth,  based  upon  a  correct 
apprehension  of  the  order  and 
relation  that  may  not  be  trans- 
gressed between  Revelation  and 
Intelligence.  The  full  recogni- 
tion of  this  law  and  acceptance 
of  this  life  will  do  more  for  our 
growth  and  happiness  than  all 
other  things  ever  known,  or  de- 
sired put  together.  Man  is  made 
for  God  and  this  is  the  only  way 
we  can  come  into  our  Divine 
inheritance. 


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AN  AFTERWORD. 

In  closing,  I  would  emerge 
for  a  moment  from  the  imper- 
sonal into  the  personal.  I  thus 
greet  you  and  pass  on  to  re- 
main in  spirit  with  you  forever. 
These  words  are  the  abiding 
strength  of  long  nourishment 
with  the  hidden  manna.  I 
have  seen  the  King  in  His 
beauty.  Mine  eyes  have  looked 
on  unutterable  things.  I  see 
the  things  that  are  to  come.  I 
have  felt  God's  heart  beating  in 
mine  and  His  dear  eyes  looking 
through  mine.  I  am  glad  for 
myself  and  for  all.  I  have 
nothing  in  truth  that  is  not 
mine  and  thine.  Are  you  sat- 
isfied ?  Let  go  my  hand.  I 
will  not  detain  you.  Is  there, 
however,  a  sense  of  amazement 
127 


AN  and   confusion   in 

AFTERWORD. 

the  many  voices  of 
the  hour  ?  Listen.  Perhaps  I 
can  bring  you  a  word  that  will 
reduce  them  all  to  harmony. 
Do  the  ways  before  you  seem 
many  and  divergent  ?  Look 
closer  and  you  will  see  the  foot- 
prints of  the  Lord  in  them  all. 
These  many  divisions  of  the 
Spirit  are  the  essential  ele- 
ments of  its  unity.  God  could 
not  be  one  and  not  be  many. 
He  is  not  only  the  people  but 
also  the  things  of  this  bright 
expanse.  After  innumerable 
visions  the  Infinite  Voice  spake 
in  my  heart  and  said:  I  am  the 
car  on  which  you  ride  ;  I  am 
the  ship  on  which  you  sail ;  I 
am  the  many  mansions  in 
which  you  reside ;  I  am  the 
the  path  beneath  your  feet ;  I 
am  the  speaking  bird  or  beast ; 
128 


AN  I  am  the  voice  that 

AFTERWORD. 

speaks  and  the 
book  you  read,  and  all  the 
other  ways  from  which  you 
draw  out  the  meaning  of  the 
Word.  This  interpretation  of 
the  Ten  Commandments,  the 
Mighty  Law  is  the  fruit  of 
much  intercourse  in  sight,  hear- 
ing and  touch  with  the  Living 
God.  This  is  but  a  leaf  out  of 
a  larger  work  of  many  volumes, 
explaining  the  Bible  from  Gen- 
esis to  Revelation,  and  disclos- 
ing the  mysteries  of  life  and 
death.  Those  who  from  this 
specimen  of  the  word  would 
know  more  should  address  the 
author  or  publisher  of  this 
brochure.  God  is  with  His 
People.  His  People  are  my 
People,  and  thy  People.  They 
are  this  Mighty  Host — ready 
to  enter  and  dwell  where  there 
129 


AN 
AFTERWORD, 


is  the  natural  in- 
telligence and  the 
moral  consciousness  ready  to 
receive — who  alone  can  give 
peace  on  earth  and  good  will 
among  all  men.  Written  in 
the  joy  of  their  peace  and  the 
abundance  of  their  love  to  all. 


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